Planter.



G. LEISGHNER.

PLANTBR.

l PPLITIOH FILED DEC. 13, 1913. v p'Q. Patented Aug. H, 1914.

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PLAN TER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented AugQiit, i9li4.

Application filed December 13, 1913. Serial No. 806,503.

the object of the invention is to provide a device of this generalcharacter of a novel and improved character which may be applied withconvenience and facility to the leg of an ordinary cultivator.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in thecombination and arrangement of the several parts whereby certainimportant advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler,less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use,all as will be hereinafter more fully set, forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theappended claim.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will nowproceed to describe the same with reference to the ac companyingdrawings. wherein- Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a planterconstructed in accordance with my invention, shown in applied position,a portion of a cultivator being shown; Fig. 2 is a view in sideelevation and partly in section of my improved planter, taken from theside opposite to that shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a view in top planof my device as herein embodied.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, 1 denotes a cultivator of anyordinary or preferred type having depending rearwardly therefrom theusual beam 2, from which depends the conventional leg 3 which is adaptedto have ailixed thereto the cultivator shovel.

4 denotes a drill or shoe of any well known type having secured at itslower end the sweep or blade 5 which serves in an effective manner as agrass and weed destroyer, which is believed to be self-evident. Restedupon the upper portion of the shoe or drill 4 is the supply hopper 6with which coacts suitable planting mechanism under control of the shaft7.- As this planting mechanism or feeding mechanism, as it may its upperbe termed, forms in its details 4no particular part of my presentinvention, it is not believed that a detailed disclosure or descriptionthereof need be given. The upper portion of the rear of the drill orshoe 4 is provided with a vertically extended elongated slot 8 throughwhich is adapted to pass the clamping bolt 9 which is also directedthrough the shovel back 10 and adapted to hold the drill in operativeposition, it being readily understood that the elongated slot S permitsa ready and convenient adjust.` ment of such shoe or drill as therequirements of practice may dictate. As is believed to be self-evidentthe shovel back is adapted to be secured to theleg 3 of the cultivatorin the usual manner through the medium of the clamping bolt 11, as isclearly shown in the drawings.

Secured to the upper portion of the shoe or drill 4 and at oppositesides thereofl are the depending curved extremities 12 of thesubstantially U-shaped frame 14 of pre determined dimensions which haspivotally secured thereto, as at 15, intermediate the-,z length of thesides of such frame 14 the end portions of the upwardly directed extensions 16 of the bearing frame 17 in which is mounted the pressing wheelor roller 18.

ln order that the pressing wheel or roller 18 may have the requisitetension to properly operate upon the furrow formed by the drill or shoe4, I provide such frame 17 with the cross bar or brace 19 having theloosely directed upwardly projecting elongated member 20 disposedtherethrough, which has extremity suitably directed through a clevis 21projectingrearwardly from the base of the U-shaped frame 14,hereinbefore referred to; and surrounding such member 20 and interposedbetween the clevis 21 and the bracing bar 19 is the expansible member23, herein shown as in the nature of a coil spring, possessing therequisite tensile strength, it being readily perceived that the tensionof such spring can be readily regulated through the action of theelement 24 in threaded engagement with the lower end portion of suolielongated member 20.

As herein disclosed, the shaft 7 of the den livery or feeding mechanismof the drill or shoe 4 is caused to rotate by an operative connectionwith the shaft 26 of the pressing wheel or roller 18 and, as hereindisclosed, such connection is afforded by the sprocket liti@ lidia vvv mwww-'www rand in which such chain 27 directed around the sprocket wheels28 and 29 suitably fixed upon the shafts 7 and 26, respectively. Thefeeding or delivery mechanism in the present instance is of a typewhereby the control of the feed is obtained through a longitudinalendwise adjustment of the shaft 7 which is adapted to be locked in itsVarious adjustments through the medium of the set screw 30 and in orderto afford an additional bearing for such shaft 7 I have dependingforwardly of the frame 14 the arm 3l terminating in a bear'- ing 32, asis particularly shown in Fig. 2, shaft 7 is adapted to be mounted.

While the wheel or roller 18 is adapted to press the furrow created bythe drill or shoe 4, I find it of particular advantage to em-, ploy thecovering chain 83 positioned in advance of the Wheeler roller 18 anddepending from the cultivator leg 3 at a point above the shovel back 10.

It is to be particularly noted that the operating mechanism for myimproved drill or planterA is in close proximity to the surface Withwhich it is adapted to coact and whereby it is permitted to employ thesame with convenience for planting or sowing the seed between rows ofgrowing cotton; such operating gear is positioned below the branches andfoliage. of the cotton plants and therefore will not tear off the same.

From the foregoing description it is thought to be obvious that aplanter constructed in accordance with my invention is of an extremelysimple and comparatively inexpensive nature and is particularly welladapted for use by reason of the'convenience and facility with whichitmay be applied to the leg of any conventional cultivator and it willalso be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change andmodification without material departure from the principles and spiritthereof and for this reason I do not Wish to be understood as limitingmyself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several partsherein shown in carrying out my invention in practice! Having thus fullydescribed my invention what I desire to claim and secure by LettersPatent, is: y

A planter attachment comprising a drill provided with 'a feeding means,said feeding means including a rota-table shaft projecting beyond oneside of the drill, a frame projecting rearwardly from said drill, an armprojecting forwardly from the frame and terminating in a bearin throughwhich the projecting portion of t e shaft of the feedinfr means isdirected, a bearing frame pivotaIly engaged with the first named frame,a presser roller mounted in thel bearing fraaie', an expansible memberinterposed between the first named frame and the bearing frame, andmeans coacting with the presser roller for positively rotating the shaftof the feeding means.

In testimony whereof I hereunto ali'ix my l signature in the presence oftwo Witnesses.

j GOTTHILF LEISCHNER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM I-I. KREITER, GEORG VOLLMER.

